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zodiacmg , Steve, and Steve have used in the past, which I'd had and appreciated, I made pizza for the first time tonight. It was something I'd told both roommates about and intended to be for all three of us. One roommate ended up going elsewhere rather than home tonight (I presume either to her sister's or to another classmate's to do work), so it was just two of us. However, the pizza came out pretty well, especially given that I do not yet have a cookie sheet (I tried to find one at two places on Friday and neither had a cookie sheet, so I guess I'll try at the shuk on Wednesday), and that I was using regular tomato sauce. Perhaps next time I'll invite some other friends to share the pizza, since at least this time we have enough to bring for lunch tomorrow too, which should be a nice change from the yoghurt plus other leftovers that has been my most usual lunch lately.
Before that, the school day was an interesting one. Hebrew class had me more frustrated with our teacher than usual, so I spoke to our administrative type about it, and he's said that he'll have a word with the teacher with our hopes for more work on speaking, and less pointless competition. I'm very frustrated by the class- I feel like it's on a level well below what I've done in the past, and with expectations that cause me to do less well than I could, because that's all that's asked for. It makes me crazy.
Halakha was an interesting mix of useful and interesting information combined with statements that drove me off the wall. It's supposed to be a halakha le'maase class (practical Jewish law), but our teacher places his emphasis in a way that I find very foreign to the notion of practical halakha, and then tries to apply it. Understanding what the relevant Talmudic passages originally meant is very nice, and can even be a factor in your interpretation of the later law- but they oughtn't be the factor that causes you to disregard hundreds of years worth of later tradition. It is occasionally infuriating. Today had a few of those moments- although not all, and I did learn some very interesting things in the midst of it all.
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zodiacmg , Steve, and Steve have used in the past, which I'd had and appreciated, I made pizza for the first time tonight. It was something I'd told both roommates about and intended to be for all three of us. One roommate ended up going elsewhere rather than home tonight (I presume either to her sister's or to another classmate's to do work), so it was just two of us. However, the pizza came out pretty well, especially given that I do not yet have a cookie sheet (I tried to find one at two places on Friday and neither had a cookie sheet, so I guess I'll try at the shuk on Wednesday), and that I was using regular tomato sauce. Perhaps next time I'll invite some other friends to share the pizza, since at least this time we have enough to bring for lunch tomorrow too, which should be a nice change from the yoghurt plus other leftovers that has been my most usual lunch lately. Before that, the school day was an interesting one. Hebrew class had me more frustrated with our teacher than usual, so I spoke to our administrative type about it, and he's said that he'll have a word with the teacher with our hopes for more work on speaking, and less pointless competition. I'm very frustrated by the class- I feel like it's on a level well below what I've done in the past, and with expectations that cause me to do less well than I could, because that's all that's asked for. It makes me crazy.
Halakha was an interesting mix of useful and interesting information combined with statements that drove me off the wall. It's supposed to be a halakha le'maase class (practical Jewish law), but our teacher places his emphasis in a way that I find very foreign to the notion of practical halakha, and then tries to apply it. Understanding what the relevant Talmudic passages originally meant is very nice, and can even be a factor in your interpretation of the later law- but they oughtn't be the factor that causes you to disregard hundreds of years worth of later tradition. It is occasionally infuriating. Today had a few of those moments- although not all, and I did learn some very interesting things in the midst of it all.
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